Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Faculty of Law :: Criminology
PSICOPATOLOGIA CRIMINAL - 2018/2019
3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 2nd semester
ECTS: 6
Teachers
Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutor Cândido da Agra
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutor Cândido da Agra
Class type and School hours
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas
Teaching Language
Portuguese
Main Aims/Objectives
This UC aims to introduce students to psychopathology and its relationship with crime.
Specific Aims/Objectives
This UC aims at providing students with i) knowledge on the evolution of problems, concepts and theoretical frameworks of the “psychopathology-crime complex”; ii) the main criminological research advances in this domain.
Skills to be acquired
At the end of the UC, students are expected to have developed:
- Competences to differentiate psychiatry, psychopathology and criminal psychopathology.
- Competences to Identify the concrete problems that arise in the convergence of these disciplines, within the framework of criminal justice and security.
Teaching Procedures
THEORETICAL CLASSES: Predominantly expository sessions designed to introduce students to the program contents.
PRACTICAL CLASSES: Sessions designed to foster critical thinking, guided by case discussion.
TUTORIAL LESSONS: Sessions for the analysis and discussion of literature in the field,
according to the UC objectives.
Programme
I- General introduction to the UC.
II- Definition of criminal psychopathology in relation to general psychopathology, to special psychopathology, to psychiatry, and Clinical Criminology.
III-Historical and epistemological analysis of the scientific status of these disciplines and their relations.
IV- Specific analysis of central concepts related to crime: "danger", "risk", "risk assessment", "criminal personality", "psychopathy", "sociopathy", "antisocial personality" ...
V- The great nosographic framework and their relation with the criminal behavior: psychoses, neuroses and psychopaths.
VI- Psychopathy: classifications and perspectives.
VII- Relations between Law, Criminal Justice and Psychopathology.
Evaluation Type
- Two written tests.
Teaching Resources
Scientific publications and other materials provided or recommended to the students.
Sustainability Objectives
Keywords
Main Bibliography
Author | P.Pichet e Barahona Fernandes |
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Title | Um século de Psiquiatria e a Psiquiatria em Portug |
Edition | 1ª |
Place | Paris e Lisboa |
Editor | Roche |
Year | 1983 |
Author | Sobral Cid |
Title | Psicopatologia criminal. Casuídica e Doutrina |
Place | Lisboa |
Editor | Livraria Bertans |
Year | s/d |
Author | DEBUYST, Ch. |
Title | Perspetivas de Criminologia Clínica |
Edition | 1º |
Place | Belo Horizonte |
Editor | D´Plácido |
Year | 2018 |
Complementary Bibliography
Author | C.Bartol and A..M.Bartol |
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Title | Criminal Behavior: a psychological aproch |
Author | Cândido da Agra (Org) |
Title | A Criminologia: um Arquipélago Interdisciplinar |